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Abstract
We investigate the contribution that lingual gesture
delay makes to lenition of postvocalic /r/. This study uses a socially-stratified, audio-ultrasound corpus of Scottish English containing recordings from two sociolects; one with postvocalic /r/ weakening and the other with strengthening. We quantify auditory strength of rhoticity and the timing of the anterior lingual gesture relative to the offset of voicing in CVr words: bar, bore, fur, or onset of a following consonant in CVrC words: farm, herb, burp, in order to show that there is a statistically significant correlation between weak rhoticity and a late articulatory gesture. Our ultrasound data also show that during the process of final consonant vocalization/deletion, underlying articulatory gestures may persist.
delay makes to lenition of postvocalic /r/. This study uses a socially-stratified, audio-ultrasound corpus of Scottish English containing recordings from two sociolects; one with postvocalic /r/ weakening and the other with strengthening. We quantify auditory strength of rhoticity and the timing of the anterior lingual gesture relative to the offset of voicing in CVr words: bar, bore, fur, or onset of a following consonant in CVrC words: farm, herb, burp, in order to show that there is a statistically significant correlation between weak rhoticity and a late articulatory gesture. Our ultrasound data also show that during the process of final consonant vocalization/deletion, underlying articulatory gestures may persist.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Aug 2015 |
| Event | International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2015 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Aug 2015 → 14 Aug 2015 Conference number: 18 https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs/icphs2015 |
Conference
| Conference | International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2015 |
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| Abbreviated title | ICPhS 2015 |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Glasgow |
| Period | 10/08/15 → 14/08/15 |
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Keywords
- ultrasound tongue imaging
- rhoticity
- sound change
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Seeing the Links in the Speaker-Hearer Chain: An investigation of the transmission of articulatory variation using ultrasound tongue imaging
Lawson, E. (Principal Investigator), Stuart-Smith, J. (Co-investigator) & Scobbie, J. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/08/11 → 1/10/14
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